College of Arts & Sciences The Graduate Division Professional and Liberal Education
Featured Lectures
What Do We Know About the Boundary Between Normality and Abnormality?
Ayelet Ruscio
Assistant Professor of Psychology
Junhyong Kim
Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Natural Sciences
April 10, 2013
Gary Bernstein
Reese W. Flower Professor or Astronomy and Astrophysics
April 3, 2013
Upcoming Lectures
Lectures by Topic
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Choosing History: A Philosophy of the Past
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Lying Your Way to the Truth
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Why Share Power?
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It's Not a Dream It's a Memory: The Role of Sleep in Memory Storage
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What's the Matter with American Exceptionalism?
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Water and Future Climate Change
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The Chemistry and Geopolitics of the Rare Earth Elements
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The Cosmos as a Microscope: Reading the Laws of Nature in the Night Sky
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The Knowable Universe
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When Poetry Gets the Blues
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What Makes a Poem a Poem?
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Social Norms
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Drosophila and Human Disease: How the Fly Provides Insight into Brain Disease and Injury
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Anthropology and Globalization: An Urgent Challenge and Responsibility
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The Nature of Nature
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Writing the Right on What's 'Right
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An Open Letter to Mister Rogers
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Crusading, Then and Now
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Down with Fractions!
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Why Achievement Isn't "Normal"
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Death and Body Fluids (or Why Religion is Important)
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Virtuality and the (Real) Humanities
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The Human Brain 2.0
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Major Matters
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Why Is Mathematics Useful?
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A Constitutional Moment: Freedom of Religion in One Minute
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The Difference between Blues and Jazz
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Attention Deficits
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Is America Rome? Why Do You Ask?
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Why Fly-Fishing Is a Zen Experience
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Site of Sight, Right of Sight, and Rite of Sight: Exploring the Cultures of Seeing
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Climate in Crisis
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Ethnography in the Age of Supercrunching
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How to Read Wild Biodiversity: Barcode It
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The Life and Death of the Mississippi Delta
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Chopin's Minute Waltz
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The Humanities are in Crisis! No, the Humanities are the Crisis!
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Is American Government Obsolete? Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
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Children - the Pursuit of Happiness?
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Human History
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John F. Kennedy’s Sex Life
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How Women’s Studies Can Save Your Life
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Hypocrisy: How Evolution Guarantees Human Inconsistency
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Language Change in Philadelphia
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Brokeback Nation
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Economics
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American Isolation: It's Not What You Think
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Beyond the Founding Fathers
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On the Stability of Life
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Imperialism in the Modern Middle East
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U.S. Military Mortality in Iraq
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Is It Wrong To Punish Prisoners?
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Can the Musical Object Speak?
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Intracellular Landfills
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The Fundamental Nature of Consciousness
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Faust in Copenhagen: A 60 Second Tour of Quantum Mechanics, Politics, and Science Humor
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Why Supreme Court Decisions Are Hard to Read, and Why We Should Read Them Anyway
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How to Protect Civil Liberties While Protecting Against Terrorism
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Beauty
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The Unknown
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Particles from Proton Collisions in 60 Seconds
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Are humans still evolving?
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Freudian Time
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Divided and Dangerous: Human History from a Different Angle
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Why 3-D Movies Do and Don't Matter
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Research and Education for an Energetic Future
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Back to the Future: Antarctic Ice Sheets in a Warm World
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Why Bribe?
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What Would the Founders Think: Political Polarization and the 2012 Election
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INjustice and Personal Pursuits
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For the Love of Online Learning
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Yes We Can ... Or Maybe We Won't: The Youth Vote in this Presidential Election
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From Tupac to Gangster Arabi: Hip-Hop in the Middle East
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Seeing Ulysses in Philadelphia
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Egypt's Leaderless Revolt: A View From the Ground
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Why We Speak
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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics
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Ten Things I Love About Penn
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Morrison, Jazz and Postmodernity
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The Other 96% (of the Universe)
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The Genome: The Inner Universe and the Best Place to Put Your Money
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What Do We Know About the Boundary Between Normality and Abnormality?
Lectures by Speaker
Susan Schneider
Gino Segre
Heather Sharkey
Rogers Smith
Wendy Steiner
Peter Struck
Kok-Chor Tan
Evelyn Thomson
David Thornburgh
Sarah Tishkoff
Eric Trager
Mark Trodden
Eve Troutt Powell
Yuhua Wang
Michael Weisberg
Liliane Weissberg
Jane Willenbring
Tukufu Zuberi
Gino Segre
Heather Sharkey
Rogers Smith
Wendy Steiner
Peter Struck
Kok-Chor Tan
Evelyn Thomson
David Thornburgh
Sarah Tishkoff
Eric Trager
Mark Trodden
Eve Troutt Powell
Yuhua Wang
Michael Weisberg
Liliane Weissberg
Jane Willenbring
Tukufu Zuberi
William Labov
Beth Linker
Heather Love
Irina Marinov
Antonio Merlo
Melanie Micir
Carol Muller
Christopher Nichols
Yuval Orr
Brendan O’Leary
Deven Parker
Kathy Peiss
Joshua Plotkin
Samuel Preston
Adrian Raine
Guthrie Ramsey
Andrew Rappe
Philip Rea
Ayelet Ruscio
Eric Schelter
Beth Linker
Heather Love
Irina Marinov
Antonio Merlo
Melanie Micir
Carol Muller
Christopher Nichols
Yuval Orr
Brendan O’Leary
Deven Parker
Kathy Peiss
Joshua Plotkin
Samuel Preston
Adrian Raine
Guthrie Ramsey
Andrew Rappe
Philip Rea
Ayelet Ruscio
Eric Schelter
Michael Gamer
Robert Ghrist
David Grazian
Jeffrey Green
Campbell Grey
Paul Hendrickson
Renata Holod
Benjamin Horton
John Jackson
Daniel Janzen
Douglas Jerolmack
Jeffrey Kallberg
Suvir Kaul
Donald Kettl
Junhyong Kim
Hans-Peter Kohler
Alan Charles Kors
Bruce Kuklick
Demie Kurz
Robert Kurzban
Robert Ghrist
David Grazian
Jeffrey Green
Campbell Grey
Paul Hendrickson
Renata Holod
Benjamin Horton
John Jackson
Daniel Janzen
Douglas Jerolmack
Jeffrey Kallberg
Suvir Kaul
Donald Kettl
Junhyong Kim
Hans-Peter Kohler
Alan Charles Kors
Bruce Kuklick
Demie Kurz
Robert Kurzban
Ted Abel
Vijay Balasubramanian
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Herman Beavers
Charles Bernstein
Gary Bernstein
Cristina Bicchieri
Nancy Bonini
Philippe Bourgois
Rebecca Bushnell
Anthea Butler
Camille Charles
Paul Cobb
Timothy Corrigan
Dennis DeTurck
Angela Duckworth
Jamal Elias
James English
Martha Farah
Mary Frances Berry
Vijay Balasubramanian
Sarah Barringer Gordon
Herman Beavers
Charles Bernstein
Gary Bernstein
Cristina Bicchieri
Nancy Bonini
Philippe Bourgois
Rebecca Bushnell
Anthea Butler
Camille Charles
Paul Cobb
Timothy Corrigan
Dennis DeTurck
Angela Duckworth
Jamal Elias
James English
Martha Farah
Mary Frances Berry